My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior - before the Reformation.

I've always tried to keep reinventing myself and to keep appealing to young people and when I go to colleges now and do my spoken-word show it's astounding to me how I get older and the audience gets younger. To me, that's the best compliment. That's better than money, that's better than anything.

Maybe I'll just write books. I'd like to make another movie, but I don't want to go back and [do] what they want you to do, to make it for a million dollars. I did that. I don't need a lot, but I need what I used to get, and they don't give you that anymore.

My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.

Life is a rotten lottery.

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.